Re: Feeling a bit nervous…

[Rick Green – Founder of TotallyADD]

It makes perfect sense. It’s the dread of knowing. If it was all bad news, you’d probably save the money and just leave it be. But of course there is so much that you can do about ADHD, and so many different ways it presents that knowing will make a huge difference. Or rather, knowing will give you the insight to know what’s going on, stop blaming it on ‘personal character flaws and lack of willpower or ambition’ and put simple structures in place that support you. Where you are at the is hardest place to be. Not knowing.

But when you have a confirmed diagnosis, and always be open to the possibility it’s something else or something as well, then you’ll find the ground stabilizes. For me, there was a lot of time looking back at my life and understanding my choices. One of the most profound was seeing why I wrote skit comedy and not comedy screenplays. I can write a comedy skit, or sketch, if you prefer, very quickly. A screenplay? Six months of work on character arcs, B stories, back story, motivations and goals and protagonists vs antagonists… With a 1 in a 1,000 chance of it getting made? Forget it! Suddenly I stopped feeling guilty for never finishing the half dozen screenplays I’d started.

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